Hi, with this request I meant to search for recently uploaded images that match "Kathmandu":
But the results mostly have nothing at all to do with Kathmandu. How come?
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Strange, good question. Maybe that word is somewhere in the file descriptions like the uploader name. You can use the categories to achieve what you meant to do using the deepcategory search operator, see here.
Thank you for the hint, I wasn't aware of this option. But my goal was to find recently uploaded files that have "Kathmandu" somewhere in the description (or the file name), and do not have a category associated with Category:Kathmandu. It's not that important, but the search results just made me wonder how this could be. As far as I can tell, the file pages in the result don't contain this text, at least not in Latin script.
Interesting, I think there is a way to search the description in specific but I couldn't find info on how which seems missing so I asked about it here.